Early church
Charismata to 320 A D : a study of the overt pneumatic experience of the early Church
... having been subjected to minute examination from a bewildering array of angles in order to capitalize on every scrap of information about the Early Church that they contain. One wonders how this condemned ...
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Elders as leaders in 1 Peter and the early Church
... In studies on ministry, leadership and order in the early church, 1 Peter often is given less attention than it deserves. Even when the content of the letter is examined for its bearing on this theme, ...
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Consecration, Thanksgiving and the Missing Institution Narrative: the nature of eucharistic praying in the Early Church
... these early centuries. The early church gave thanks precisely because this was pure gift; it offered the sacrifice of praise because the church was a new humanity, because God was bringing his ...
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The Holy Spirit and the early Church: The experience of the Spirit
... of early Christian confessions, during which it was noticed that early Christian creedal formulas always display a tripartite ...the early Church’s experience of the Holy Spirit, asking questions ...
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The amazing growth of the early church
... In this way death, waging war with these two weapons, pestilence and famine, destroyed whole families in a short time, so that one could see two or three dead bodies carried out at once … Then did the evidences of the ...
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The Influence of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs in the Early Church: Joseph as Model in Prochorus’ Acts of John
... From the following more detailed analysis of the story about Procliane and her son Sosipatros it will be demonstrated that this story and that about Joseph in the Testaments not only dea[r] ...
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When, Where, and Why did the Change from Sabbath to Sunday Worship Take Place in the Early Church?
... Long periods of Constantine’s later career were focused in the eastern empire, particularly his new capital which came to be known as Constantinople (and is today known as Istanbul), but he was based at Rome at the time ...
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The Holy Spirit and the Early Church: Doctrine & Confession
... of the Trinity (a non-biblical term!) was completed with the help of Greek philosophy. Unlike ever before, the intellectual achievements of Greek philosophers were used in and by the Church. However, we would also ...
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Church, mission and ethics Being church with integrity
... the early church, through medieval and reformation history into modern times, the church struggled with issues of ...the church to understand that ecclesial integrity has primarily to do with ...
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The punishment of slaves in early Christianity: the views of some selected Church fathers
... the Church Fathers approved, in principle, of the punishment of ...the early Church Fathers conceptualised the punishment of ...these Church Fathers admonish their slaveholding audiences to ...
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Unshackling the Church
... the church in the development of ecclesiology – the Patristic era – to appreciate the complexities associated with ecclesiology; for example, the ultimate relationship of the church with empires when it ...
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Church as heterotopia
... the church as the ‘body of ...the church pertains to a transcendence of simplistic Platonic ...institutional church today manifests such a ...a church that can become a heterotopia of ...
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The Church and Community Development in Nigeria: The Church in Etinan as an Illustration
... The Church in Etinan was involved in community development in such a way that the community felt the positive impact of such ...The church preached the Gospel side by side with physical ...the church ...
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Millennials of the Church
... movements in the church, which were centered on community and social justice. Despite the importance of these movements, they often placed individuals or notions of community above God. One of the strongest ...
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The Green Church
... the church met in large groups, Baby Boomers met in smaller seminar-like settings and members of “Generation X” wanted even smaller places where their tight-knit circles could meet and share the most private ...
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The scientist and the church
... Marxism in the early twenty-first century is very different from the work of Marx. Marx’s research was novel, scientific and revolutionary; the texts of many Marxists today (although by no means all) are recycled, ...
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The Church and Politics
... The letter entitled Political Responsibility, issued by the Ad- ministrative Board of the United States Catholic Conference in March 1984,' grounded political involvem[r] ...
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The. Organic. Church
... "organic church," I mean a non-traditional church that is born out of spiritual life instead of being constructed by human institutions and held together by religious ...Organic church life ...
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The Church and Homosexuality
... upon. Church teaching acknowledges a distinction between a homosexual "tendency," which proves to be "transitory," and "homosexuals who are definitively such because of some kind of innate ...
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The church militant? The Church of England, humanity and the future in Doctor Who
... Countless other examples could be (and, indeed, are) offered in the course of this book. And here we can move beyond the television series. As fans know, Doctor Who’s world is much wider than its televisual context. The ...
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